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Q: Steve Hwang A: To make a program load into the system tray even if it wasn't designed to go there, use Idyle Software's Tray Minimizer. You can download a trial version of this $US13 shareware program from www.idyle.com. Tray Minimizer offers a number of ways to place a program in the tray (see FIGURE 1). ![]() You can drag a program to the Tray Minimizer icon on the desktop, or you can make 'Tray Minimize' an option when you right-click an .exe file. The best method, however, is to use the Tray Minimizer Control Center to create a special shortcut that launches your program into the tray. When the tray-minimized program is running, it behaves normally: It's visible on the taskbar and on the <Alt>-<Tab> list. But when you minimise it, it disappears from everywhere but the tray. The program isn't perfect—getting it to hide Outlook 97 properly was tricky—but it worked just fine with most programs I tried. |
Category:Windows 9x Issue: August 2000 |
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